the inability to wear more than one exotic weapon and armor is the primary reason my personal loot grind has ended. For some reason I feel compelled to grind gear upgrades but grinding ascendants isn't addicting at all.
If we could wear more exotics I would prolly have hung in there longer.
bungie should have just made the raid slightly harder than a strike and had matchmaking. Raiding is the only way you easily progress beyond full legendaries and the 2 exotics, but bungie made it annoyingly inefficient to do any raiding. Only a minority of the playerbase had done the raid and even less repeated it after that.
bungie sucks at the raid game
I hear you about the Ascendant materials, I do think that the endgame would have benefited greatly if there were an introductory raid that was catered to players around level 24. If this Raid had matchmaking for the easy version and it rewarded plenty of ascendant material with the chance to earn Legendaries here and there, I think things would be much more smooth for players.